It’s impossible to tell how California’s wine harvest is going by Esther Mobley

“The grapevines’ yields are plentiful; no, they’re low. The fruit is ripening early; no, it’s right on schedule. The drought is straining the roots; no, there’s plenty of water. ‘It’s weird that there’s so much lushness but also so much dryness,” said Mayacamas Olds, the chief operating officer of Enterprise Vineyards, of moisture levels in the ground.”

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